Category: CAD Applications

So here I am toiling away on making some updates to the two apps I have in the Inventor App Store﻿, Swift Prints﻿ and Design Notes﻿. I’ve been trying to correct an issue where if a user manually unloads the add-in the custom toolbar will be removed and then when they manually reload the add-in, the toolbar reloads.

We all have our own list of favorite websites related to our jobs that we really can’t do without. Here’s my list of 2015 and the list of those one high on my list that are now those I even forget I have bookmarked. Of course, there is a few dozen more I visit regularly but not on a daily basis.

Here’s an interesting topic I wanted to get all of your opinions on. There’s a enormous effort today being put behind “CAD in the cloud”. Autodesk is heavily investing in development and marketing of Fusion 360 and newcomer, OnShape is rapidly gaining momentum. With their low cost and ease of use, CAD in the cloud is gaining users at a rapid pace. The makers movement only accelerates the pace of adoption further.

Recently, Desktop Engineering Magazine put together a list of the top 10 reasons why you should develop in the cloud with Fusion360. With all this being said, Fusion360 also is not quite a mature product yet and has quite a few things that need improving.